Off to the next round! Experience a new omnibus simulator with OMSI 2 and start discovering Spandau while driving the omnibus. OMSI 2 is the successor of the well-known and awarded omnibus simulator "OMSI - The Bus Simulator".

June 21

The long-awaited Add-On “Chicago Downtown” for OMSI 2 is now available and it comes around with lots of new features and improvements! Allow yourself to feel like a bus driver on the lines 124 and 130 and transport your passengers in more than 20 miles of road network safely to their destinations. However, the developers didn’t focus at bus and street details only. There are numerous sights in the third largest city of the U.S., which you can see in the game too. But all of this faithful environment should be treated with concentration, because your reactivity could be in demand otherwise, at any time!

June 17

The Developer team has worked on some substantial improvements: Now passengers sitting in a vehicle part that has no exits now properly leave their section and move to another one and the bug, that reduced the calculated special vehicle density many times over, has been fixed. Furthermore the probability of special vehicles (fire department, transporters) on Spandau has been reduced to 20% of the previous value.

About This Game

Off to the next round! Experience a new omnibus simulator with OMSI 2 and start discovering Spandau while driving the omnibus. OMSI 2 is the successor of the well-known and awarded omnibus simulator "OMSI - The Bus Simulator". OMSI 2 not only offers the routes and buses you already know from OMSI, but adds lots of exciting new features. In OMSI 2 you can drive the first ever articulated bus in the OMSI history, the MAN NG272. Explore the new omnibus line 5 covering a total distance of 12 km from the subway station Ruhleben to the psychiatric clinic Spandau. Thanks to the newly added chronology function you´ll not only be able to drive through Spandau in 1986, but also to relive the changes taking place in Spandau between 1986 and 1994.

Enjoy the charm of the 80s and 90s and find out how the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall was. And this all at wheel of a double-decker or articulated bus.

New features in OMSI 2:

The articulated bus MAN NG272 with the exact physical and visual recreation of the joint kinematics as well as corresponding sounds and systems (bending protection).

The MAN NL202 as well as reworked and added models of the known types SD200 and SD202 (more years of production, emergency door openers, destination boards, sound variations depending on vehicle number).

The Spandau omnibus line 5 from the subway station Ruhleben to the psychiatric clinic Spandau covering a total distance of 12 km, several new buildings, a squeezed timetable and a tight 5 minute rhythm with various bus termini and assignments for diverse and long lasting driving pleasure.

Replication of original timetables and tour plans for omnibus lines 5 and 92.

Chronology function: Relive the change taking place in Spandau between 1986 and 1994! OMSI 2 now replicates the exciting years following the German reunification and all the innovations and route expansions (line 137 to Falkensee) that came along with it. This function also allows temporary changes to maps or routes caused by construction sites or special buses.

System damage model including different malfunctions which take time to fix

OMSI 2 supports a world coordinate system so it is possible to import a DEM (Digital Elevation Model) with the help of a DLL you can even program yourself.

Animated real vertical profile on the Spandau map

New script functions such as full matrix view, advanced access to system variables.

New editor functions: automatic import of aerial imagery, terrain adapts to run of the road, improved spline connection algorithm, rotation of objects around all axes. Intersections can easily be equipped with individual vertical profiles.

Script engine to influence the handling characteristics and functions of the bus

Easy to use, map-based track editorInsert your own vehicles

Compatible with TrackIR 5

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8

Processor: 2.6 GHz

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Graphics: GeForce or comparable AMD with minimum 512 MB

DirectX: Version 9.0c

Recommended:

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8

Processor: Dual core processor with 2.8 GHz

Memory: 4 GB RAM

Graphics: GeForce or comparable AMD with 1024 MB

DirectX: Version 9.0c

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Yes, it will crash and freeze on occasion. Yes, it is difficult to master at first and will take time to figure out. Yes, you have to read the manual and instalation of addons can be a pain.

But still, there is absolutely NOTHING like it. It is hands down the best transport sim there is - most detailed, most realistic representation of driving a public transport vehicle, period. I own them all - and nothing else comes close.

The busses (the included ones and most 3rd party addons too) are infinitely detailed, with nearly all functions working and represented. Deep scripting allows for modders and 3rd party developers to represent nearly any of a bus' systems faithfully; and basic scripting it is not difficult to understand, so if you don't like something - you can put the time in and change it. The sounds are superb, best and most detailed of any sim. There is interaction with the passengers, they're not just props. There is an infinite ammount of freeware addons (I don't remember when I last played the default map or one of the default busses), some of which are not only as good as payware addons - many they surpass the payware addons. There are huge maps with 20 different routes and small maps with one or two routes. There are city maps and interurban maps. Busy maps and quiet, pastoral maps. And most of the maps coming out nowdays are detailed and pretty.

Of course, OMSI is also deeply flawed. You have to take that into account, especially if you're used to sims and games built by large companies with teams of developers. It has all the classic limitations of a game built in the living room by two passionate guys - a crappy engine (performance can suffer on large maps even on the best of systems), occasional crashes and errors, underdevelopment in many areas (the AI of cars can be infuriating, they are dumb as hell and never leave their paths, which can create gridlock sometimes). But the core of the simulation is so good that you get used to the flaws and learn to work around them. And yes, it is worth it.

Never had there been a sim on which I've logged so many hours. Big thumbs up.

OMSI 2 is not without it's faults, but overall is a really in-depth and high quality bus simulator. It is a game crafted with love and attention to detail, unlike certain other simulators.. *cough* Train Simulator.

So what's so good about OMSI?

+ The buses are very high quality, and almost every button in the cab works. Every little function in the bus actually works. Even the driver window slides! The bus sounds are top notch, and this game has one of the best sound engines I've ever heard.+ The game simulates passengers, and it does it very well. The passengers evaluate your bus driving, and will moan at you if the bus is too cold or too warm or you attempt to short change them. They will want to get off your bus if your driving is not up to scratch!+ The game fully simulates a 24 hour clock, and various types of weathers such as rain, snow, fog, etc. You will notice less cars and passengers at night, and lots more at rush hours. + OMSI has a huge modding scene, which means you can download tons of new maps and buses for free. There's always more to do, and you don't have to fork out £24.99 cause you want some different scenery. + Timetables are fully simulated, and AI buses follow them just like you. You can even take over an AI bus if you wish. + The included Berlin map clearly had a lot of detail put into it. Compare it on Street view or compare images and the similarities become obvious right away. + The game is supported with Official DLC's which are of great quality. + The game has full steering wheel support which is really great if you have one.

Okay, so what about the negatives?

- The game WILL micro-freeze and suffer from framerate issues. If you are really really sensitive to issues like this, I would not recommend it. If like me you are willing to look past these issues, you will be fine. It doesn't prevent me from enjoying the game. - There are various bugs here and there such as the AI hitting you sometimes, passengers noclipping through bus stop shelters, etc. - The graphics are by no means amazing and they could be better, but I do think they do the job. - The game can be intimidating at first and the tutorials really are quite useless, don't bother with them. - The settings can be hard to configure, and aren't as simple Low, Medium and High. This can also be seen as a good thing as you can customise them best to your system.

After playing the first Omsi, I had high expectations for the 2nd version. As a bus enthusiast I can tell you That Marcel and Rudiger (MR software) had really stepped up their game in terms of physics and playability. There's something about this game that always brings me back. Maybe it's the fact that this game is completely customisable or that it's the most accurate bus simulator on the market.

If you get bored of the default Spandau map, there's tons of maps that the community have made which keeps the game interesting. There's also a wide range of buses made by the community too and one major advantage is that they're easy to install.

Sure, the graphics aren't state-of-the-art but if it's a good game, it shouldn't solely rely on the graphical effects, and this game doesn't. I've been playing the Omsi series since the release of the first instalment (If I'm correct, that was mid 2011) and I haven't gotten bored of it.

This is the most open, user-friendly and realistic bus simulator on the market and I could only recommend it. I hope this review helped! :)

For many years, I've been searching for a bus simulator that has great graphics and is relistic. Bus Simulator 2008 : First bus simulator I've played. It was good but I didn't feel like I was actually driving a bus.

Then OMSI The Bus Simulator came out and the graphics were not good enough to win me over but it was better than Bus Simulator 2008.

Then OMSI 2 and OMSI 2: Steam Edition came out and when I found out about it, I was determind to get it so i got it as part as christmas. I installed it and tried it for the first time. IT WAS EPIC!

It felt like I was driving a bus, the graphics on the buses are better, OMSI 2 is better than OMSI 1 and Bus Simulator 2008!

I highly recommend you lot play OMSI 2 but if you don't like it, you have no ♥♥♥♥ing soul!

If you like driving a bus and simulators then this is a game for you. Definitely it is a game for me too, but there seems to be some issues/bugs.

After reducing threads (or what ever was that option called that the game itself proposed after the first crash) helped a lot to the crashing. It still has some random crashes but not too often. Sometimes you manage to lose open window somehow behind the game so that you cannot access it anymore and there seems to be no way to get the window on front again. Sometimes the game doesn't seem to recognize when you arrive to the last stop and then I have to drive a little loop to arrive the stop again. And the line destination setting doesn't work if you write the destination with all minor letters even it looks like that the destination is found from the drop down many correctly, cure for this is to open the line setting window again and press okay (since this time the game has set the minor/major cases correctly), if you fail to notice that you might lose passengers since they don't recognize the arriving bus to be their one.

Still, after knowing these bugs you can get decent "game" play and at least I enjoyed it a lot. Driving ain't easy but you will learn it.